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The year is 1918 and some thing is stalking the woods around Knoxville, Tennessee.
The mysterious beast is killing farm animals – hogs and calves and the occasional hunting dog – and residents are afraid to leave the house at night. Children are kept home from school. Local efforts to stop the beast have failed so desperate residents make a plea to America’s foremost outdoorsman and big game hunter to come to their aid.
President Theodore Roosevelt.
The former president’s glory days were behind him at this point in his life. His health was poor. He was sixty and suffered from severe rheumatism and carried a bullet in his chest from a failed assassination attempt in 1912. He also had flare-ups of malaria, contracted during a 1913 expedition to the Brazilian jungle, and a leg injury from the same trip that sapped much of his legendary energy. But he remained a prominent figure in American affairs. Surely this old warhorse could be called upon for one last hunt.
And Roosevelt was indeed the man to call. A respected naturalist, he had hunted game as far afield as Africa.
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Examiner: Theodore Roosevelt – Monster Hunter?
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By Nick Redfern
Now and again, I get asked if government agencies take an interest in reports of strange creatures roaming the countryside – in much the same way that, for many years, official departents have investigated other forms of anomalous phenomena, such as UFOs. Well, the answer is “Yes,” there have indeed been such studies undertaken. As just one of many examples, consider the following.
Early in 1998, the British Government’s House of Commons held a debate on the existence – or otherwise – of a particular breed of mystery animal that is widely rumored, and even accepted by many, to inhabit the confines of the British Isles: the so-called Alien Big-Cats, or ABCs, as they have become known. It scarcely needs mentioning that Britain is not home to an indigenous species of large cat. Nevertheless, for decades amazing stories have circulated from all across the nation of sightings of large, predatory cats that feed on livestock and terrify, intrigue and amaze the local populace.
Indeed, there now exists a very large and credible body of data in support of the notion that Britain does have in its midst a thriving population of presently unidentified large cats – such as the infamous “Beast of Bodmin” and “Beast of Exmoor” that so dominated the nation’s newspapers back in the early-to-mid 1980s.
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Mania: Lair of the Beasts: Monsters and the Government
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Do Mayan carved panels depict cosmic monsters? This is the question bugging archaeologists after discovering the new panels which depict the Mayan creation myth.
The panels were created around 300BC and were found at the El Mirador complex in Guatemala. El Mirador is the largest Mayan complex found to date, with vast temples and elaborate palaces, road networks and waterways. It was mysteriously abandoned in 900AD.
Spread over more than 500,000 acres (2,000 square km), El Mirador is three times the size of Guatemala’s famous Tikal ruins, a popular tourist destination.
In one panel, the twin heroes of Mayan creation mythology, are surrounded by cosmic monsters and the bird deity.
Some UFOlogists are questioning whether these cosmic monsters in fact point to creatures of an extraterrestrial origin.
Reuters: Rare Maya panels found in Guatemala
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If you live in a Filipino village with an economy primarily based on fishing, it could present quite a problem if five monsters suddenly show up in your water keeping everybody land-locked out of fear. Some say this is what caused the current world-wide economic meltdown. Others claim we just made that up right now.
Still others claim five snake-like black beasts did show up in the local waters of a Philippine island of Luzon.
Could these creatures be a previously unknown species, or could it be, as some have suggested, mutants formed by the toxic waste that is dumped into the river?
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Heckler Spray: Awesome Or Off-Putting: The Pinatubo Monsters
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